Word Meanings - INDELICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse;

Additional info about word: INDELICATE

Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse; broad; impolite; gross; indecent; offensive; improper; unchaste; impure; unrefined.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INDELICATE)

• Broad
• Wide
• extensive
• expansive
• ample
• liberal
• comprehensive
• unreserved
• indelicate
• coarse
• generic
• Coarse
• Common
• ordinary
• vulgar
• gross
• unrefined
• immodest
• rough
• rude
• unpolished
• Gross
• Entire
• vicious
• impure
• bloated
• sensual
• animal
• bulk
• outrageous
• unseemly
• shameful
• Nasty
• Fool
• offensive
• odious
• disagreeable
• unclean
• obscene
• Obscene
• Impure
• indecent
• lewd
• four
• filthy
• disgusting
• foul-mouthed

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• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• OUTRAGEOUS
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• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• COMPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.
• ROUGHLEG
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• BROADSWORD
  A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• BROADBILL
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  Rowen.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• COMMONER
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• ROUGHSHOD
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• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
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• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
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• UNEXAMPLED
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• UNCOMMON
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  Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action. R. Owen.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.